Reviews

20 June 2025
In the vast and ever-shifting landscape of global storytelling, a remarkable phenomenon has quietly emerged and taken root: the English-language podcast as a vessel for Ukrainian drama. Not as fragments of translated news or sporadic interviews, but as complete dramatic texts
17 April 2025
On April 14, 2025, Bohemian National Hall in New York City, USA, opened its doors to a poignant evening of theater as part of the Rehearsal for Truth International Theater Festival. The occasion was a staged reading of Once Upon a Time There Was a Rooster, a contemporary play by
21 February 2025
A group of students from the Department of Translation Studies and Contrastive Linguistics at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv has recently undertaken a project to translate selected Ukrainian children's plays into English. This initiative aims to make Ukrainian dramatic
24 January 2025
This week marks the culmination of an extraordinary endeavour: the podcast series A Dictionary of Ukrainian Emotions. Created by Ukrayinska Pravda in collaboration with American and Ukrainian contributors, the series breathes life into nine English-language plays from A
30 June 2024
Liudmyla Tymoshenko’s Diary of a Ukrainian Madman will premiere at the Finborough Theatre in London, UK, from 13 August to 31 August 2024. Tymoshenko’s latest work, a modern comedy inspired by Mykola Hohol’s Diary of a Madman, emerges as a profound and surreal reinterpretation
8 May 2024
Translation of “My Hell,” a sharp, thought-provoking tragicomedy by well-established Ukrainian playwright Oksana Savchenko, became my focus during my translation residency at Princeton University in the spring semester. Theater translation had been on my mind since I co-organized